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Chinese policy towards UN intervention and peacekeeping: a case study
(2016-03-15)
This research investigates the revision of China’s foreign policy in respect to the application of the principle of non-intervention when participating in UN interventions. It achieves this through a detailed examination ...
Empowering children and young people: an access to justice assessment of mental health law and policy
(2016-10-08)
This thesis aims to comparatively assess the Irish government’s national, international
and regional obligations to respect, protect and fulfil children’s access to justice rights
under mental health law, policy and ...
The Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Law
(2013-08)
This work seeks to examine the potential of international criminal tribunals to set the highest standards of procedural fairness for the conduct of criminal proceedings domestically. This work points to a number of reasons ...
Making the new space created in the UN CRPD real: Ensuring the voice and meaningful participation of the disability movement in policy-making and national monitoring
(2014-12-16)
The participation of persons with disabilities in policy and legislative processes and in monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international legal ...
Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a new bridge to bring human rights law to the domestic level and create a dynamic of change
(2015-09-30)
This thesis looks at Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 33 requires states to set up a framework, located both within and outside of government, to guide and monitor the ...
Media and disability - issues of portrayal and access
(2016-04-29)
This thesis begins with the premise that freedom of expression is the cornerstone of a democracy and any limitation on it must be prescribed by law, be in support of a legitimate aim and be necessary in a democratic society. ...
Resolution of conflict in family law matters: An alternative and child-inclusive approach
(2014-05-01)
This thesis examines the emerging area of alternative dispute resolution in a family law context in Ireland. Specifically, it explores mediation and collaborative practice. Family law mediation is well established in ...
Golden cages: refugees, camps and the politics of law
(2015-12-09)
This thesis explores the interplay between the refugee as a figure and the refugee camp as a space, and interrogates how this interplay has informed international refugee law as well as examining the gaps in international ...
What's Fair? Realising the right to Independent Living for people with intellectual disabilities: what Ireland needs to do.
(2013-10-17)
Ireland has a long and shameful history of providing for the support and housing needs of people with intellectual disabilities in large institutions. This is not unique to Ireland, nor to people with intellectual ...
The Rights of Older People in Residential Care An Examination of the Law and Practice
(2013)
Since the foundation of the State older people in residential care settings have been largely 'invisible' to the State. Their personhood has been diminished or indeed negated where the older persons' will and preference ...